RadioActive 5/3/07

Producers/hosts: Meredith DeFrancesco and Amy Browne

Topic: The State and Local Government Sweat Free Consortium. In March 2007, at a meeting in Harrisburg, PA, state and local governments came closers to consolidating their purchasing power to prevent tax dollars from support sweatshop labor in the garment industry. Today we bring you some of the speakers from that meeting: Representatives from the state of PA, the city of San Francisco, a union garment worker, and Maine’s own Bjorn Skorpen Claeson, the Director of Sweatfree Communities

FMI: www.sweatfree.org or 207-262-7277

RadioActive 4/26/07

Producers/hosts: Meredith DeFrancesco and Amy Browne

Topics: Interviews with Daryl DeJoy and Cecil Gray about the proposed ban on bear trapping in Maine (the last state that allows the practice), and with Jack McKay of Food and Medicine, about the impact of recent Circuit City firings on local employees, the Employee Free Choice Act, and the organization’s annual May Day celebration.

FMI:

www.wildlifealliancemaine.org

www.foodandmedicine.org

RadioActive 4/19/07

Producers/hosts: Meredith DeFrancesco and Amy Browne
Contributor: Carolyn Coe

Topics: Project Occupation was back in Bangor today urging Senator Susan Collins to stop funding the occupation of Iraq. Meanwhile in the nearby courthouse, arraignments were taking place for some of the activists arrested at the March protest at the Senator’s office. Also, an update on impeachment efforts. FMI: www.maineimpeach.org
Also, an interview with Julie Beckford of Rebel Hill Farm–grower of the plants sold in the annual PICA (Peace thru InterAmerican Community Action) fund-raiser, taking place now. FMI: www.pica.ws

RadioActive 4/12/07

Producers/hosts: Amy Browne and Meredith DeFrancesco

Topics: Final segment of the Don Pablo Alvarenga series.  Don Pablo Alvarenga is a historian in the town of Cinquera, Cabañas, El Salvador.  In this final segment he talks about some of the issues facing El Salvador’s people today.  Recorded January 2007.  Translated by Jesse Dyer Stewart
Also, Cathy Mink of Waldo County gives an update on efforts to impeach George Bush and Dick Cheney (www.maineimpeach.org)

RadioActive 3/29/07

Producers/hosts: Amy Browne and Meredith DeFrancesco
Guest producer: Carolyn Coe
Topics: The Reversing Falls Church in Brooksville, Maine’s tribute to Rachel Corrie (www.rachelcorrie.org) on the anniversary of her death earlier this month.  Corrie was killed in Gaza as she tried to help protect a Palestinian family whose home was about to be bulldozed.   She was 23 years old.  Also, an announcement about the 2nd annual Sustainable Food Conference coming up this weekend in Unity

RadioActive 3/22/07

Producers/hosts: Amy Browne and Meredith DeFrancesco

Topic: An interview with Orin Langelle of the Global Justice Ecology Project about the recent World Social Forum and efforts to prevent the promotion of genetically engineered trees for biofuels.

FMI: [email protected], www.globaljusticeecology.org, biojustice2007.org, biodev.org

NOTE: The Water Commons Symposium announced on RadioActive has been postponed until June